Do these three popular anti-ageing skincare ingredients work? Here’s what the evidence says

By Szu Shen Wong, Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Science, Keele University
Neil Grazier, Technician, School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering, Keele University

For people looking to press pause on ageing, it hasn’t always been as easy as it is today. Throughout history people have used all sorts of outlandish anti-ageing skincare techniques – such as bathing in donkey’s milk as Cleopatra supposedly did, or applying mercury directly to the skin, as the Elizabethans did.

While the modern era has certainly…

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